Originally posted by JLB,
The 70th week has not occurred in this verse or the time frame it encompasses!
Show me in the Scriptures where it says the 70th Week is separated from the 69 Weeks by a large gap of time........ or any
"gap" of time. Where in Daniel 9 does it say the
Final (70th) Week is disconnected from the previous 69 Weeks?
You believe it's here:
Daniel 9:26-27 "After the 'sixty-two weeks' the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. . . . He will confirm a covenant with many for 'one week.' In the middle of the 'seven' he will put an end to sacrifice and offering."
Where does it say this
"one week" is disconnected from the previous 69 Weeks (483 Years)? Where does it say there will be a gap of many years between the 69th and 70th Week? Show me from Scripture? You're
assuming there is a gap, but Scripture says no such thing. It doesn't even HINT at such an idea.
How can one take the Jubilee Calendar from which the 70 weeks are determined and separate the 70th week from the 69th week by inserting an interval of time between the weeks and still call some future week the 70th week? Has this ever been done in the weekly cycle upon which the week of years is based? No. Do other prophetic time-periods follow this pattern? No. Do other prophetic time-periods operate under the Jubilee Calendar? Yes. So, how can one separate the 70th week from the previous 69 weeks? There is only one answer: By misunderstanding the principles that govern the
Jubilee Calendar (49 year cycles).
Furthermore, 70 weeks in the Jubilee Calendar equals 490 years and 490 years amounts to a period of 10 Jubilee cycles. Thus, it is not possible to separate the 70th week from the earlier 69 weeks. The idea of a large gap of time between the 69th and 70th week represents a gap in logic, not a gap in time. The 70 Weeks are 70
consecutive Weeks (490 Years), the chronology of time cannot be broken.
Four decrees were issued for the restoration of Jerusalem.
Cyrus gave the
First decree in the
Friday year of 536 B.C. (Ezra 1)
Darius gave the
Second decree in the
Monday year of 519 B.C. (Ezra 6).
Artaxerxes gave the
Third decree in the
Sunday Year of 457 B.C. (Ezra 7), and
Artaxerxes gave the
Fourth decree in the
Sabbath year of 444 B.C. (Nehemiah 2).
God used
"weeks" instead of
"years" to indicate the synchrony for this all important decree with His weekly cycle of years established at
the Exodus. In verse 25, Gabriel adds another specification that identifies which of the four decrees God will use to count off the seventy weeks:
"From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven 'weeks' and sixty-two 'weeks. . . .'"
With these words (above), Gabriel points to
the public ministry of Messiah.
457 B.C. aligns with the weekly cycle of years that began operating at
the Exodus in 1437 B.C. Second, 457 B.C. aligns with the
49 year Jubilee cycles that began operating at the Exodus. Third, Messiah appeared 69 weeks (483 Years) after 457 B.C.,
in A.D. 27, to be baptized by John the Baptist. Fourth, 457 B.C. was affirmed by the wise men shortly after Jesus was born. Fifth, 457 B.C. decree is the one indicated in Daniel 9, is the timing of Jesus' death. Basically,
Jesus began His ministry on time and He died on time. The death of Jesus not only confirms the synchrony of the Jubilee Calendar, it also confirms the decree of Artaxerxes in 457 B.C. to be the right decree. Paul was aware of this phenomenon:
"But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law . . . You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly." (Galatians 4:4; Romans 5:6)
Gabriel said,
"After the 'sixty-two weeks' the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. . . . He will confirm a covenant with many for 'one week.' In the middle of the [last] 'seven' he will put an end to sacrifice and offering." (Daniel 9:26,27).
A.D. 30 is located in
the MIDDLE of the 70th Week of Years (A.D. 27 - A.D. 33). There should be no doubt in any mind that
Jesus put an end to animal sacrifices and ceremonial offerings when He died on the cross. (Colossians 2) Yet, very few Christians realize that
Daniel predicted Jesus' death and Jesus fulfilled Daniel's prophecy when he died in
the MIDDLE OF THE 70th WEEK!
You are simply making things up, assuming they are found in the Bible, but they are not. Arbitrarily grabbing the 70th Week, disconnecting it from the previous 69 Weeks, and then hurling it 2,000 years into the future is pure fiction. There is nothing in the Bible that comes remotely close to implying such an idea. If you disagree, show me in the Scripture this "gap of time" you assume is written in Scripture.
Originally posted by JLB,
Jesus was crucified in 33 Ad.
Very close proximity on the time charts?
I can show from astronomical data (New Moon conjunctions, as it relates to Passover) that April 7, A.D. 30 was the year of the Crucifixion. Look here:
http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/astro...es/spring-phenom/?searchterm=spring phenomena
However, it would't be relevant to this discussion. The
"block" of 490 Years (70 Weeks) cannot be broken up regardless of when this time period began and ended. Whether the 490 Years began in 457 B.C. and ended in 30 A.D. - or whether the 490 Years began in 454 B.C. and ended in 33 A.D. - it wouldn't make a difference. the
"block" of time,
the 10 Jubilee Cycles - the 490 Years - whether it is shifted 3 years forward or backward in time - cannot be broken. The fact that you believe this
"3 Year" differential is even relevant proves you have no understanding whatsoever when it comes to the 70 Weeks prophecy. You are simply regurgitating bits and pieces of Scofield's theory. I probably know Scofield's theory far better than you do, so there is no need to post segments of it that you don't even understand.
